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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What worries Axl and Beatrice at the end of Chapter 2?

2. What is the only thing that Beatrice can remember about her son in Chapter 2 before she and Axl cross the Great Plain?

3. How long ago does Axl think in Chapter 1 that a woman was in the village who was a healer?

4. How old is the man that Axl thinks is a warrior in Chapter 3?

5. How many Norsemen does a solider say have fallen by Wistan's hand?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what difficulties are there in traveling in open country?

2. What mission do Gawain and Wistan share?

3. In Chapter 5, what roles do Wistan and Edwin assume when they meet soldiers at a bridge?

4. What are some areas of Britain like in the time when Axl and Beatrice live in Chapter 1?

5. What does Edwin hear her mother telling him to do in Chapter 4?

6. What is the place like where Axl and Beatrice live?

7. In Chapter 3, what does Beatrice see at the gate, and how is that different from when she was at the Saxon village before?

8. In Chapter 4, what does Edwin remember about being a prisoner of the ogres?

9. How is the land described in Chapter 1?

10. What happened earlier in the day to some men and a boy from the Saxon village who went fishing in Chapter 3?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Edwin has a bite on his chest, and people want to kill him. What do people suppose caused Edwin’s bite? What do people believe will happen to Edwin because of the bite? How does superstition play a role in Edwin becoming an outcast?

Essay Topic 2

Conflict in a book is a struggle, usually between characters, but may also be a conflict with one’s self or with nature. Examine the conflicts in the novel and decide whether they are man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. self, and if conflicts are external or internal. What type of conflicts occur most in the novel; and of these conflicts, are they external or internal?

Essay Topic 3

Wistan has a feeling of danger at the monastery. What are premonitions? What characters have premonitions? How do those premonitions come to pass? How do premonitions affect characters and their survival?

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